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Your Wedding
Mohaka River Farm is a picturesque working farm just 45 minutes from Napier, one hour from Taupo. There are some beautiful spots to choose from for an outdoor or indoor wedding. The comfortable and quaint accommodation units sleep up to 20 guests with a spacious campground for overflow guests. We also offer an outstanding range of outdoor and hands-on experiences available to your guests to enhance the celebration.
Designed for celebrations in every season, Mohaka River Farm offers flexible rain-or-shine options with wedding packages starting at $5000 through to multi-night wedding experiences.
We can accommodate 100+ guests onsite for multi-night wedding events with a range of accommodation options including handmade timber cottages/chalets, cute A-frames, a glamping tent and ample space for camping. All with gorgeous views. The venue is best suited to weddings of around 100 guests and can easily be adjusted for smaller weddings with extra space for mixing, mingling and dancing!
Indoor and outdoor seating, commercial kitchen, wood-fired pizza oven, loads of parking, and a handcrafted covered handmade timber pergola. Marquees can also be arranged, though they’re rarely needed thanks to the covered spaces already onsite.
If You Can Imagine It, We Can Explore It
We specialise in fully bespoke experiences and can accommodate many unexpected requests beyond a traditional wedding venue. With considerable onsite resources and a big committed team, we can make special things happen for those thinking outside the box. If you’re wondering whether we can make your dream wedding idea happen just ask - we’re here to serve and co-create amazing experiences for life.
"The planning, thoughtfulness and effort of the staff, the food, facilities - it was just the best weekend from start to finish. Being able to do so many fun things on the property was amazing for our parents and guests who came from all around the country and the U.S. too."
The Holifields. April, 2026
Wedding Collections & Add-ons
Mohaka River Farm is more than just a venue. As one of the premier experience providers in Hawke’s Bay, we specialise in creating authentic, unforgettable celebrations with unique onsite activities and adventures for you and your guests.
In our experience, there is no “one size fits all” approach to creating a truly memorable wedding or event, so please view the following packages as starting points for a conversation. Our speciality is bespoke events created just for you!
The Full Experience
NZD 12,000 with optional add-ons available (for up to 100 invitees)
Our most comprehensive collection designed to provide a seamless and carefree celebration. We recommend this multi-day approach because it best utilises all the advantages of this breathtaking property. Perhaps you haven’t travelled far to reach us, but by taking advantage of the restful, and yet engaging, atmosphere, it’s akin to “a destination wedding.” This all encompassing package includes:
- Exclusive Lodge hire (up to 4 days) including use of our well-equipped commercial kitchen, outdoor wood-fired pizza oven, outdoor braziers and outdoor undercover seating, hot drinks station, and comfortable lounge.
- Set up for indoor or outdoor wedding, up to 100 guests with sound system.
- Up to 3 nights accommodation in our 8 units (sleeps up to 20 guests depending upon sleeping arrangements), as well as complimentary guest camping for up to 80 guests.
- As part of this collection, your guests will be welcomed with refreshments at the Lodge upon arrival, the bridal and groomsmen party will be pampered with delicious fare as they are getting ready for the ceremony, and on the day following the wedding, we provide a gourmet waffle brunch sendoff for onsite guests.
See Add Ons below for more information on recommended Caterers for your Wedding reception or for other meals.
THE SHARED ESCAPE
NZD 8,000 with optional add ons available (for up to 70 invitees)
Designed for shorter and more intimate celebrations, this flexible 3 day exclusive lodge hire includes 2 nights accommodation for up to 20 guests, and set up for your wedding.
MID WEEK CELEBRATION
NZD 5,000 (up to 100 invitees)
Includes 2 days use of Lodge and 1 nights accommodation for up to 20 guests, as well as set up for your wedding. Available on select Tuesday-Wednesdays, talk to us about this simple but still special option.
ADD-ONS
We’re here to serve you and make sure you and your guests have an amazing time. If you can imagine it, we can explore it - so just ask!
Catering for the Reception or other meals, as well as wait staff, is at an additional cost. Depending on what you have in mind, we can provide menu options and quotes.
Please note we are not a licensed premises and as a family friendly venue, we request all BYO consumed in the lodge be limited to beer and wine/champagne.
Professional flower arranging and photography, special signage for your event, and an original watercolour guest book painting are a few of the special touches you can add to your package.
Enjoy a bonfire by the riverside and sizzle some sausages and marshmallows, or we’ll help you fire up the pizza oven, provide the ingredients and you can have a go at making and cooking your own pizzas.
For more information on classes and horse treks see our Experiences page.
And remember, all the fun doesn’t have to happen before the wedding. After sending off the bride and groom, why not use this beautiful location as a place to connect with friends and extended family. Stay on a couple of days, take a horse trek, sign up for a class, and relax!
For a more detailed wedding planning brochure, or to request a call from one of our wedding planners, send us a message via the button below.
FRIENDS & FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Perhaps the ladies might gather for high tea and a pottery class where they create hand etched sgraffito pottery. Meanwhile, the men might take a knife making course followed by a riverside bonfire sausage sizzle. Group horse treks across this beautiful property are also an option for creating memories around your wedding.
Married on the banks of the beautiful Mohaka River. Late autumn, 2026.
Mohaka River Farm is far more than just a place to get married. As one of the premier experience providers in Hawke's Bay, we know how to create authentic, unforgettable celebrations with unique onsite activities and adventures for you and your guests.
From horse trekking, fly fishing, hunting and backcountry helicopter trips to pottery, watercolour painting, cheese making and stargazing, we can help you build a wedding experience unlike anything else. With ample accommodation there’s space and time to turn your wedding into a full weekend (or longer) of connection, celebration, hen and stag events, or family gatherings.
If you have guests attending from overseas they may want to take time to see some beautiful wildlife while they're here, or even do something more adventurous. We can arrange back country trips by helicopter for world-class fly fishing, overnight horse treks on a nearby high country station, we've even taken a grooms party out hunting which produced more than enough wild venison to feed their wedding party of 80 people. We're an established experiences operator with the local access and contacts around Hawke's Bay to make some pretty remarkable things happen.
Whether it’s a stag day spent rafting and hunting venison for the wedding feast, or a relaxed hens gathering creating pottery and riding horseback through the hills, we’ll help you create something deeply personal, memorable, and genuinely special.
This 2-bedroom cottage is our newest addition to our accommodation. It's handmade from Hawke's Bay grown timber with help from our sister company Heritage Timbercraft who build their timber frame homes right here on the farm. Inside is a cozy fireplace, a settler style kitchen and lovely soft new linen. There's a nifty Weber barbecue on the verandah which is super easy to use if you're in the mood for barbecuing. And it's just a short walk to the lodge and chalets both (they're all within 100 metres of each other, and about 500 metres to the river where you can swim, fish, eat wild blackberries, read a book or just lay down and relax to the sound of Tui and bellbirds).
If you'd like to take a closer look at the cottage and chalets visit our accommodation page.
More than a wedding venue: combine unique experiences while you are here.
Our Team
Our people are our strength - caring, thoughtful professionals equally at home guiding a horse trek, leading a fishing trip, teaching pottery or knife making, or planning and catering your wedding celebration with genuine care and expertise. Learn more about the team here at Mohaka River Farm here.
Ash
Kelvin
Tammy & Pete
Wilson
Becky & Abi
Zara
Boone
Drop in, have a look
The best way to see if Mohaka River Farm is where you want to get married is to come and visit. Take your time exploring the grounds, facilities, and atmosphere, and ask any questions you may have. Ash, Tammy, Pete and the team would love to meet you and hear about your vision.
Travelling from further away? Consider staying a night or 2 to get a full picture of what Mohaka River Farm is about.
To arrange a viewing, click the button below and send through a few details, including when you’d like to visit, and we’ll make sure the right people are available to meet with you.
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FAQs
For wedding ceremonies and receptions up to 120 people can comfortably be catered for. As for accommodation, we can comfortably sleep 100 people through mixed sleeping arrangements which include our new cottage and studio chalets, our A-frame cabins, glamping tent and our dedicated camping space.
